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gords:
I've recently realised my new laptop has a Firewire connection, which means I can now connect my video camera :roll:

I'm using XP Pro which has Windows Movie Maker and I also got WinDVD Creator Silver 2 with the laptop.

So, are either of these any good? Is one better than the other? Is it worth upgrading to WinDVD Platinum ($40)?

Also, do people generally record the whole tape, automatically split it into scenes and go from there? Or is it better to manually record scenes?

Any help/pointers appreciated - never done this before :)

jiffyman:
I've dabbled slightly with Windows Movie Maker, seemed quite easy really.
I dont know how much hard drive space you have but I saved mine oin bits and pieces that I wanted, on the hard drive as separtate files then made a couple of small videos.
I did need to upgrade my PC physical memory as there wasnt enough at  256mb to run the pc AND the movie software.

Also bought Pinnacle 9 software but havent used that yet

gords:
The laptop is pretty high spec - it currently has about 55Gb of disk space free and has 2Gb of memory :)

I've set WinDVD off recording the whole tape - apparently I have enough space to record over 15 hours  :D

I suppose it will take a few goes to get it right!! :lol:

NeilWilson:
Disk space is very quickly used up, I think a 20min clip of full rate video from a mini dv cam corder is 4Gb.  I have used Linux for doing videos, qdvdauthor, mpegtools, kino - maybe not as good as some of the "pro" windows stuff - but it is free :lol:.  Most of these split the video into as many scenes as you have pressed record/stop for - ie, loads of scenes on a normal tape. If you are just dumping a tape to DVD you can record into set time length blocks and run a batch process overnight to convert the avis to mpeg2 etc. HTH.

Neil

paul_humphreys:
Its not just the space you use you also need space to work. I once read that you need about 1gig per min of video. You can use Nero or Easy cd\dvd, but one of the best is Adobe Premiere.

Paul

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